Hi all,

I seem to see a lot of people using VSC over ssh to see the files and folders on their servers and edit them more conveniently than compared to nano/vim but I’m looking for alternatives for VSC.

I have an increasing number of servers and hosting things with docker compose. Thus I have a lot of /app/docker folders with numerous docker-compose.yaml and other container specific config files.

I dislike VSC so as an alternative I use Notepad++ with nftp plugin (yap, I’m daily driving Windows) to connect to the servers to see and edit said files.

I also tried Jetbrain’ fleet but it seems to intall some kind of client on the servers it connects to which requires just enough resources to notably slow down my cheap VPSes.

So other than the 3 examples above, what kind of edit do you know/use to connect to servers and edit files there directly?

  • meddig0@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For the most part I work directly on the server and use nano. Occasionally offload to VSC if it’s a bit more intensive.

    I use VSC as my main Dev program at work though, I’m interested to know what you don’t like about it?

    • leaflock7@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      not the OP, but really interested on the following.

      I was able to setup VSC etc for remote ssh and edit, but the problem is that when you need to sudo, then this does not translate.
      VSC will use the credentials of the account you used to connect , but could not figure out how to elevate with sudo or another account when you need to.

      did you manage to do that?